About Chemical Reaction Engineering and Engineer

Chemical Reaction Engineering is thatengineering activity which is concerned withthe exploitations of Chemical Reactions on a

Commercial ScaleOctave Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Typical tasks of Chemical Engineer are Design of Chemical Processes

Maintain and Operate a process Fix some perceived problems

Increase capacity or selectivity at minimum cost

Lanny Schmidt, The Engineering of Chemical Reactions

About Chemical Reaction Engineering and EngineerO petroleum refining, petrochemicals,

chemicals, and pharmaceuticalsO biotechnology, microelectronics, advanced

materials, and energy from non-fossilresources

O environment, pollution prevention,sustainable development

Chemical Reaction Engineering – New frontiersO New analytical instrumentation providing

quantitative information on species andmechanisms

O New computational resources – hardwareand software

O Multiscale approach

Category Typical Plant (TPA)

Petroleum Refining ``106 - 108 Commodity chemicals `104 - 106

Fine chemicals``` 102 - 104 Foods

Materials Pharmaceuticals ``````10 - 103

Chemistry is importantA + B - > C + D is not a real reaction

Example: Ammonia synthesisN -- N + 3 H -- H ↔ 2 N -- H3

Example: aspirin synthesis

Salicyclic acid + Acetic Anhydride ----Acetic acid + ASPiRIN

What do you we need to know about chemical processes?Reactions with simple kinetics are extremely rare.Example: Ammonia synthesis